Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-17

tnat the ue3i Will SOOH hhtuIcs Whch
he expects Western Union 10 jump to
30 and waits to get lot of it at 76.
Colonel Smart is no Sellers, because he
ia often winner. He thinks John
Sherman will receive the nomination
from the Republicans.
wATTERsoS.
Henry Watterson, who has steadily
improved since his serious illness Of
last year until he looks better and
healthier than he has for years, had
hardly registered his name at the
Everett House before the reporters were
after him to interview him on the politi-
cal situation. He believes Cleveland
will be nominated by the Democrats
and can be elected over Blaine and
Sherman. Mr.. Waiterson believes
New York City is natural summer
resort, but in order to obtain the sea
bath so much enjoyed by those from
the interior he will take his wife TO his
usual haunt, Block island. Mr.. Wat
terson predicts for the Southa great
boom in all it's Interests and declares
that the present improved sentiment
prevailing will grow stronger.
The story is whispered that the ia
nous Burchard campaign speech was
the work of son of the notorious di-
vine, who was at the time connected
with one of the metropolitan papers.
DR.. Burchard discussed the speech with
this son, who was much given to allite-
ration and the sensational in his
writings, and the father allowed him to
prepare the political or concluding
portion OF the speech, which was
bombshell not only in the Republican
ranks but in those of the Democracy.
Blaine said in recent interview that he
did not hear Burchard's remarks or he
should have replied. 1t should be add
ed that proof copy of Burchards
speech was supplied to the reporters
present, which, it is averred, was fur
nished by the son, who was present in
his reportorial capacity.
HOW DIR. NEWTON WAS NEARLY CONVERT
ED BY GEORGE.
The story has never yet been told
of the narrow escape of the Rev. DR..
Heber Newton from being caught in
the meshes amid which Father Nc
Glynn is now laundering. All New
Workers are aware that the Rev. DIR.
Newton, beside being an eloquent and
scholarly clergyman of the Episcopal
Church, has for dozen years past
been ranked among the social reformers
of the city, and has written a book
which shows his affiliations to be with
a very radical school. AS far back,
perhaps, as 1880, he ran a small pa
per which advocated cooperation, and
last year he delivered course
of lectures for workingmen upon
the labor question. Long before Nc
Glynn bad identified himself with the
George theory of land taxation New
ton had been strongly tempted to take
il up as the cure-all for the social ills
over which he mOurned. In this state
Of mind George got hold of him,
and he was soon plying the Episcopal
rector as he aftcrward piled the Catho-
lie priest. Newton is an emotional
man as well as a theologian, quite ig-
norant of the wiles of the world and the
labyrinths Of political economy; and
he became deeply exercised over the
novel theory which promised so much
more than all his philanthropy. He
was fascinated with the notion that the
crooked old world could all be straight
ened out and the rough places all made
smooth by mere change in the
4" incidence Of taxation, accom-
panied 10y a brass band. The thing
wrought upon his mind. He was be-
sieged by the promoters OF the theory
and visited their meetings. At last,
three wears ago, he preached the sub
ioct in one of his Sunday morning ser
mons in the pulpit of his fashionable
church, ard Mr.. George happened to be
there and welcomed his new convert
with effusion. Soon afterward he was
a guest at a dinner given by cOteric,
at which he was drawn out i'll speech,
and the guileless clergyman spoke with
foryor of the new hope of humanity.
About this time certain alleged heresies
brought him under the discipline OF
the Episcopal Bishop, just as Father
MC1iN III WAS iCSNHIiy piN"SHs VIZ
der the discipline of the Roman Catho-
lie Archbishop. He stood, as Father
McGlynn recently stood, on the ragged
edge" About this l may here quote
from a statement made to me yester-
day by one of his intimate friends, who
said The struggle in DIR. Newton's
mind continued up to the spring of last
year. The George theorists felt sure
that they had captured the eminentrec-
tor, and that he would be an acquisi-
ton of incalculable importance to their
side. There were rumblings in his
church as we'll as in his bosom. Mr..
George urged him to resign his pulpit,
throw up his rectorship, and Join him
as an apostle of the new gospel of taxa
ton. The affair reached its cri-
sis one night when, under memora-
bic circumstances, Or. Newton took
counsel with some trusted friends, IN
an interview which lasted till the lonely
hours of the next morning. His mind
was in Turmoil, as to his duty. lie is
a brave man, continued my informant,
land had he seen the George theory
to he OF Divine origin, as claimed 10y
Father McGlynn at later period, he
would have proudly and quickly thrown
away the world for it. But as he
wrestled with himself in the quiet of
Garden City he began to see the wis
dom of the course which he subse-
Quently pursued rs rector of the Anthem
Memorial church. He shook off the
nightmare.
these revelations of my informant
agree with what had heard from ether
sources. When the Labor party's cam
paign of last year in this city had
opened the Rev. DIR. Newton spoke at
the first meeting in Chickering Hall,
which, 10y the way, was the meeting at
which Father McGlynn made his first
and Last speech for George during the
campaign. That was the first speech
of Father McGlynn, which brought
upon him the first censure and the first
punishment from Archbishop Corrigan.
The Rev. DR.. Newton suffered neither
censure nor punishment for his speech,
hut he never afterward appeared in
public as an advocate OF Georges
candidacy, wholly retired from partici-
patton in the canvass, and ignored all
appeals to come out as a champion of
the cause. THUS the learned, eloquent,
radical, and sympathetic Episcopal
divine took adifferent course from that